Oh my gosh, yeees... bed. :]
Day two of my bone broth fast went much better than yesterday. Yesterday was... challenging. I was really hungry all day, and just the thought of continuing with no food except bone broth was so darn depressing... more so as the day went on. I finally broke down and opted for a keto breakfast for dinner about 8:30 pm. So today I had decided I would do exactly the same. And knowing that made all the difference. I lost 2.2 lbs after day 1 on the fast. And I knew I would weigh less on day 2 because I peeked at the scale halfway through day 1 and I actually weighed less than I did that morning. That never happens on a normal day.
Anyway, I also had far less brain fog today. I felt it start to creep in about noon, but I powered through it. I spent the morning deciding on the ready-made meal I would have on-hand (a meat and side item) and some desserts (fat bombs). On keto, fat is good.
During the afternoon, I went to the local farm to get chemical free, free-range eggs (2 dozen because I plan to make some hard boiled to have on salads and just as a snack). There's also 4 other people in this house that might eat eggs. But I also plan to eat a fried egg (in coconut oil) with avocado for breakfasts. I often eat that anyway. It's just right now I don't have a good recipe for a morning smoothie, keto approved. I had to give up my sweetened chocolate almond, banana, and frozen fruit smoothies.
Then this evening, I cooked:
- 2 whole chickens with poultry seasoning I also mixed up. We had this before and Ashley (who is doing keto with me) loves this recipe
- cauliflower mashed potatoes, with garlic scapes, garlic, bone broth, coconut oil, and tarrow - EVERYONE loved this one, even the non-keto folks in the house.
- cheesecake fat bombs
- peanut butter cup fat bombs
The fat bombs are made from butter, coconut oil, some weird sweetener that has zero whatevers, 100% dark chocolate or cocoa, amish peanut butter (just peanuts) and whatever other ingredients I can't recall at the moment. We froze them in either mini muffin pans or silicon ice cube trays. I do NOT like the 100% dark chocolate... but maybe I will grow to enjoy them.
Spaceman worked on pricing garage sale items for the community garage sale that he's participating in Thu-Sat. We don't ever get much traffic here. My street is out of the way, but he tries. I detest garage sales. I try to stay out of his way and am happy to take stuff to donate instead. He's much more thrifty than I am. When he was done with that and tending to the garden a little, he came into the kitchen to help lick bowls and cut the chicken up to put in serving size containers. Ashley and I each have 3 ready-made meals and more dessert fat bombs than we would want to eat. I also still have some raw, soaked, & seasoned almonds drying out in the dehydrator. That was super expensive, organic raw nuts. I don't think I'll be doing that very often. Even though I thought I bought plenty. They don't look like much on the drying tray.
We got nothing done on the bathroom this weekend. Oh well. I was a mess yesterday and today I had to do everything I had planned to do yesterday, today, and then today's stuff. I'm whooped and thankful spaceman came in to help me divvy up the meals into separate containers. We also saved off the giblets, bones and broth from cooking the chickens. He says he will make lentils with the broth. I plant to make my own bone broth with the gizards and bones, no matter how gross that sounds. I am doing it to heal my leaky gut. I would rather be a vegetarian.
And if anyone knows a keto-friendly "batter" for catfish deep frying... please share. I forgot to make my catfish meal before I ran out of time and started this diet!
I'm also looking for good salad dressing alternatives... no sugar, keto-friendly oils (olive, avocado or coconut). Right now I plan to mash an avocado and salt it for a creamy dressing. I don't know anything else and I'm not really a fan of olive oil, unless something can mask the taste.
That's it for now. It's bedtime. :)
